[Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Hi, I am planning on running on test between maildir and mdbox to see which is a better fit for my use case. And I'm just looking for general advice/recommendation. I will post any results I obtain here. Important question: I have multiple users hitting the same email account at the same time.

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.1.2012, at 17.59, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: I am planning on running on test between maildir and mdbox to see which is a better fit for my use case. And I'm just looking for general advice/recommendation. I will post any results I obtain here. Maildir is good for reliability, since

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Wow, incredible response time :) I have 1 more question which I forgot to put in the initial post. Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what mdbox setting would you

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.1.2012, at 18.13, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what mdbox setting would you recommend i start testing with

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 28.1.2012, at 18.13, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what

Re: [Dovecot] maildir vs mdbox

2012-01-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.1.2012, at 19.02, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Btw, when I migrate my emails from Maildir to mdbox, dsync should take into account the rotate_size parameter. If I want to change the rotate_size parameter, I simply edit the config file, change the parameter (erase the mdbox folder?) and